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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE COLD HEAVEN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven
Last Line: By the injustice of the skies for punishment?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Death; Memory
First Line: Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven
Last Line: By the injustice of the skies for punishment?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Death; Memory
Suddenly I saw the cold and rook-delighting heaven
That seemed as though ice burned and was but the more ice,
And thereupon imagination and heart were driven
So wild that every casual thought of that and this
Vanished, and left but memories, that should be out of season
With the hot blood of youth, of love crossed long ago;
And I took all the blame out of all sense and reason,
Until I cried and trembled and rocked to and fro,
Riddled with light. Ah! when the ghost begins to quicken,
Confusion of the death-bed over, is it sent
Out naked on the roads, as the books say, and stricken
By the injustice of the skies for punishment?
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